1. Hardship and Suffering During the Depression

2. What are we studying today?
MAIN IDEA
What are we studying today?

3. Terms & Names
What is a shantytown?

4. A PERSONAL VOICE ANN MARIE LOW
“ [T]he air is just full of dirt coming, literally, for hundreds of miles. It sifts into everything. After we wash the dishes and put them away, so much dust sifts into the cupboards we must wash them again before the next meal Newspapers say the deaths of many babies and old people are attributed to breathing in so much dirt.”

5. What is a social problem brought on by the dust?

6. THE DEPRESSION IN THE CITIES
Why do people end up living on the streets?

7. THE DEPRESSION IN THE CITIES
What are Soup kitchens and bread lines?

8. THE DEPRESSION IN RURAL AREAS
What advantage do farmers have over city dwellers?

9. THE DEPRESSION IN RURAL AREAS
Why do many farmers lose their land?

10. THE DEPRESSION IN RURAL AREAS
What is a “penny auction?

11. THE DUST BOWL
What was the Dust Bowl?

12. THE DUST BOWL
Why does the Dust Bowl occur?

13. THE DUST BOWL
What was the result of the Dust Bowl?

14. Effects on the American Family
Why do most families remain “tight” during this time?

15. Effects on the American Family
Why might the difficulties faced cause greater unity?

16. MEN IN THE STREETS
Why might some people leave their families?

17. MEN IN THE STREETS
What is a hobo?

18. MEN IN THE STREETS
What is direct relief?

19. A PERSONAL VOICE THOMAS WOLFE
“ These were the wanderers from town to town, the riders of freight trains, the thumbers of rides on highways, the uprooted, unwanted male population of America. They gathered in the big cities when winter came, hungry, defeated, empty, hopeless, restless always on the move, looking everywhere for work, for the bare crumbs to support their miserable lives, and finding neither work nor crumbs.”
—You Can’t Go Home Again

20. What is the mood of this passage?

21. WOMEN STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
Why did women receive less money than men when working?

22. WOMEN STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
Why is it difficult for women to find jobs?

23. A PERSONAL VOICE MERIDEL LE SEUER
“ I’ve lived in cities for many months, broke, without help, too timid to get in bread lines. I’ve known many women to live like this until they simply faint in the street A woman will shut herself up in a room until it is taken away from her, and eat a cracker a day and be as quiet as a mouse [She] will go for weeks verging on starvation, going through the streets ashamed, sitting in libraries, parks, going for days without speaking to a living soul, shut up in the terror of her own misery.”
—America in the Twenties

24. What is the author trying to say about women?

25. CHILDREN SUFFER HARDSHIPS
What are some of the problems for children?

26. CHILDREN SUFFER HARDSHIPS
Why might it be dangerous for the children who begin to wander on their own?

27. SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
What are some of the social effects of the depression on people?

28. SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
Why might the Depression have long term effects on people?